Metal Injection

A new Soundgarden album is approaching. The album will be called King Animal and it comes out on November 13th. This is the first Soundgarden release in 16 years, so it's a big f'n deal. While we've already heard one track this summer, "Live To Rise" via the Avengers soundtrack, not much other music has [...]

It's been a while since we've done a comprehensive AV Roundup, and we have a great one for you today. New music from Soundgarden, Pig Destroyer, Gaza, Ghoul, Obey The Brave, The Chariot & Becoming The Archetype. The first snippet of new music from Soundgarden is available. The track is "Worse Dreams" and it comes [...]

As we were leaving the Summer Slaughter (watch our coverage here), somebody casually mentioned to me, "Hey, did you see that Randy Johnson was in the pit taking photos of us?" And I was all like, "Wait, former MLB world champion pitcher, Randy 'The Big Unit' Johnson?" Turns out, it's the same guy! You can [...]

Ok, I think we needed a little something to lighten the mood, and this photo fits the bill. We all know Dave Grohl is the coolest motherfucker around, whether he's going in the pit for Soundgarden, giving impassioned Grammy speeches, fucking with the Westboro Baptist Church or demanding fresh pots, he is the most down [...]

The thing I love about European mega-festivals is that since the amount of people that show up is so massive, they usually hire video production crews to film the action to show on large projectors so people miles back can see what is going on on stage. Sometimes, they even choose to broadcast that footage [...]

Well, this is a bummer for Black Sabbath fans. After the excitement of the Black Sabbath reunion announcement, Bill Ward balked in hopes of getting what he called "a fair deal." Sabbath weren't budging and said they were moving on without him. There were talks between both parties, and it seems those talks are officially [...]

Congratualtions to Soundgarden for finally cashing in and being the lead single on a mega summer blockbuster superhero flick. Their new video for the track "Live to Rise," their first new song in forever, serves as a giant advertisement for the Avengers movie which comes out this weekend (well, tonight at midnight for the superdorks). [...]

Before today, Black Sabbath only had two official shows scheduled on their itinerary, UK's legendary Download Festival in June and then the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, IL in August. The band will be playing in front of tens of thousands of people at these shows, so naturally, they are going to need a warm up. And, [...]

A few weeks back, Soundgarden posted their new track "Live To Rise" to stream and download. While this wasn't an earth-shattering track, as I mentioned before, guitarist Kim Thayil can fart on record for 3 minutes and I'll still think it's pretty awesome, because the dude has talent. Thankfully, there was no farting, just good ole [...]

Last week, we got our first taste of "Live To Rise," which will appear on the upcoming soundtrack to The Avengers. It just so happens to be the first original Soundgarden track released in 15 years. The band has premiered the track in full on some radio station's website. While it's a bit underwhelming in [...]

Today seems to be all about teasers, and here's one I'm super excited for, a new track from Soundgarden. Other than their 2010 single, "Black Rain," this is the first new music from the band in about 15 years. Sounds pretty killer so far. As the video screen hints at, the track is set to [...]

Last week, we told you that the side project that Brendan Small has been working on forever, Galaktikon is almost ready to see the light of day. At the time, we only had a Facebook page to report on but today an official press release sheds more details on the album, AND confirms that a [...]

Download Festival is looking pretty prettttty pretty good right about now. Besides their three headliners, The Prodigy, Metallica (playing the Black Album in full in celebration of it's 20th anniversary) and the reunion of Black Sabbath, the festival organizers have just announced a slew of new bands added to the bill, and it is stacked! [...]

Down guitarists Kirk Windstein (Crowbar, Kingdom of Sorrow) and Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity) spoke to Guitar World shortly before their last two Texas shows in Fort Worth where they talked about the band's plans to put out four EPs in a series tied together, the state of the music industry, and staying oblivious: 

I think we need to stop asking if there is any way that Dave Grohl can be cooler, because the answer will always be yes. Whether he's hanging in the GA pit watching Soundgarden, scaring the Westborogh Baptist Church, or most recently, providing backing music for Roger fucking Waters while he performs a Pink Floyd [...]